Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

 

Banfield, Frederick Sydney

 

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

 

Born: England.

 

career:

Horticultural Assistant, Dept of Agriculture S.S. & F.M.S., 1928-32; formerly Student Gardener at Kew.1

 

Collecting localities:

Stationed at Kuala Lumpur, Taiping Hills and Fraser’s Hill; at all of these places he made small collections of plants, chiefly for cultivation.

 

collections:

There may be a few dried specimens in Herb. Sing. [SING].

 

literature:

(1) Author of ‘Terrestrial orchids of the Malayan Peninsula’ (Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 83, 1928, p. 416).